<html><head><style>@font-face{font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}</style></head><body>Hedges can certainly be areas, some can be a few metres thick.<br>
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A common mapping scenario is a thick hedge and a stile at each side. The only way to represent this is to map as an area and map the stiles as nodes connected to the outline.<br>
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Phil (trigpoint) <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 August 2018 01:14:49 BST, David Fox <davefoxfac63@btinternet.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="Calibri"><p dir="ltr">Barriers, by definition, provide some level of restriction. Without attaching them in some form it becomes hard for routers to account for them.<br>
Hedges and walls are linear in nature, not an area.</p>
<br><br>On 15 August 2018, at 19:51, Tomasz Wójcik <tomox3@wp.pl> wrote:<br><br><br></font>
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<div>Currently, barrier=block is not allowed to be mapped as an area. As blocks can be big enough to map them as areas, I think it should be allowed, the same as in barrier=wall or barrier=hedge. Anyway, currently we have 3,9k of barrier=block areas in database.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abarrier%3Dblock">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abarrier%3Dblock</a></div><div><br></div><div>Block examples:</div><div><a href="http://www.concrete-barriers-blocks.co.uk/up/concrete-barrier-type-m-block-photo.gif">http://www.concrete-barriers-blocks.co.uk/up/concrete-barrier-type-m-block-photo.gif</a></div><div><a href="http://cdn1.codziennypoznan.pl/201606241325/pub/img/full/71/1c58d-a9.jpg">http://cdn1.codziennypoznan.pl/201606241325/pub/img/full/71/1c58d-a9.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>Barriers with mapping as area allowed</div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier=wall">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier=wall</a>
<div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abarrier%3Dhedge">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abarrier%3Dhedge</a></div></blockquote></div><br>
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